Arra Lynn Ross
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English
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"A miraculous text of narrative and speech fragments . . . to raise up Mother Ann Lee, founder of the Shakers, her ecstatic voice, energy, and vision." -Hilda Raz, award-winning author of Letter from a Place I've Never Been
Seamlessly bridging the material and spiritual worlds, Seedlip and Sweet Apple takes the reader into the mind of a true visionary: Mother Ann Lee, the founder of the Shaker religion in colonial America. With astonishingly original...
Author
Language
English
Description
From Arra Lynn Ross, a tender, generous, and generative extended poem centered on the experience of parenthood.
"What is learned? I'll return for my son, / at school, at three thirty-eight, bells will ring & run / days over years." Using unpredictable syllabics, rhyme, and syntax, Day of the Child captures the sensation of altered time that accompanies a child's growth. Seasons come and go. A schoolboy becomes a dreaming infant becomes a five-year-old...